Avid kite flyer, publisher, and postmaster Benjamin Franklin is believed to have coined the catchphrase, “time is money”. If only he had known just how relevant the phrase would become hundreds of years later, especially when it comes to the relationship between customer expectations of your website’s page load times and lost revenue. Page load time is the time it takes your browser to retrieve a page, with all content, and display it in full.

More and more, we see our clients moving their workloads from clunky on-premise data centers to nimble cloud platforms, orchestrated container environments, such as Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift, or a combination of both. The technical aspects of such a migration are typically well-known. Your IT staff does a great job managing these environments: Still, there is one more aspect of managing these environments that is often overlooked — cost.

Today’s global commerce landscape requires companies to have essential real-time, critical data about how efficiently their networks are functioning. This is especially true for enterprises engaged in e-commerce where having a clear window into the end user experience enables them to compete in an increasingly crowded marketplace. This holds true for the largest international organizations all the way down to locally based start-ups.

You might’ve noticed that things are looking a bit different in your account lately. We’ve been gradually rolling out updates to your dashboards and menus over the last months, and we will continue to improve the coming period. With these updates, we are upgrading the way you interact with Uptrends, so you can find stuff faster and visualize your data more easily.

In this article, learn which API metrics you should watch and how Uptrends’ API Monitoring can help you with API tracking and reporting. It is important to know the availability, speed, and validity of API responses whether you publish an API for consumption or your website or app relies on one or more APIs. If an API slips in any of those areas, you’ve got potential trouble. Uptrends API Monitoring has multiple ways to enable you to safeguard your APIs.

When it comes to monitoring your API, you need a tool that has the flexibility to handle the complexities of a modern website or app. Uptrends’ Multi-step API gives you the power to interact with API endpoints, evaluate the results, reuse response data, create automatic variables, track custom metrics, and now transform response data with user-defined functions.

Uptrends offers two free ping test tools: IPv4 Ping Test and IPv6 Ping Test. If you’re wondering why Uptrends has two separate tests that ping servers, you’re in the right place. Uptrends has two separate tests because the two addressing systems work independently of each other, often over the same network devices. IPv4 is a bit zombie like. The aging protocol is zombie like because we keep pronouncing it dead, but it keeps hanging on.

Website, web application, and API performance is everything. Many factors contribute to performance, such as network latency, use of performance-enhancing practices (use compression), minimizing server requests, and the strength of responding servers and their supporting infrastructure. If server performance is slipping due to load or age, you can find the signs in your reports.

Integrations bring your favorite tools together, making them more useful, easier to incorporate into your existing operations, saves time, and prevents confusion. That’s why Uptrends continues to add more Integrations to your alerting options.

Uptrends has always focused on providing a quality product with solutions to solve real problems for businesses of all sizes. Staying laser-focused on our customers’ needs led to organic growth that has expanded at a comfortable pace over the last thirteen-plus years. However, slow, steady growth is relative to the size of the endeavor, and as our products and services grew, so did the resources needed to sustain growth. So we grew—faster than expected.